Shipper and Carrier, Volume 4Evans-Brown Company, 1923 - Carriers |
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... feet . Think what this means with a gasoline propelled vehicle on which the engine is running and consuming gasoline during the entire period . For 88 % of the time this power is wasted . On an electric truck as soon as the truck stops ...
... feet . Think what this means with a gasoline propelled vehicle on which the engine is running and consuming gasoline during the entire period . For 88 % of the time this power is wasted . On an electric truck as soon as the truck stops ...
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... feet in length , will permit the loading of 4 full grain cargoes at one time . Loading capacity to vessels will be 150,000 bushels per hour . At the end of the grain loading pier , a marine tower will be erected to unload Bay boats ...
... feet in length , will permit the loading of 4 full grain cargoes at one time . Loading capacity to vessels will be 150,000 bushels per hour . At the end of the grain loading pier , a marine tower will be erected to unload Bay boats ...
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... feet , makes it possible for the largest of vessels to come into the port and find berthage at any point without the use of a pilot or tow , There are 190 miles of waterfront upon which have been built wharves , public and private ...
... feet , makes it possible for the largest of vessels to come into the port and find berthage at any point without the use of a pilot or tow , There are 190 miles of waterfront upon which have been built wharves , public and private ...
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... feet long . In this fresh water harbor ships can load or unload without adjustments to tides and can rid themselves of sea growths . The War Department is now considering enlarging the canal to a width of 300 feet and a depth of 37 feet ...
... feet long . In this fresh water harbor ships can load or unload without adjustments to tides and can rid themselves of sea growths . The War Department is now considering enlarging the canal to a width of 300 feet and a depth of 37 feet ...
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... feet of un- roofed storage space on the municipal piers system is 954,979 , and the aggregate of unroofed storage space is 679,777 . These figures do not contain the storage space on private docks , practically all of which is covered ...
... feet of un- roofed storage space on the municipal piers system is 954,979 , and the aggregate of unroofed storage space is 679,777 . These figures do not contain the storage space on private docks , practically all of which is covered ...
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Page 349 - In the exercise of its power to prescribe just and reasonable rates the Commission shall initiate, modify, establish or adjust such rates so that carriers as a whole (or as a whole in each of such rate groups or territories as the Commission may from time to time designate) will, under honest, efficient and economical management and reasonable expenditures for maintenance of way, structures and equipment...
Page 74 - June 15, 1923, upon notice to this commission and to the general public by not less than 30 days' filing and posting in the manner prescribed in section 6 of the Interstate Commerce Act...
Page 289 - ... expenses, taxes, and a fair return on their railway property held for and used in the service of transportation, and the importance to the public of the transportation services of such carriers; and also whether any particular participating carrier is an originating, intermediate, or delivering line, and any other fact or circumstance which would ordinarily, without regard to the mileage haul, entitle one carrier to a greater or less proportion than another carrier of the joint rate, fare or...
Page 216 - Communication between lakes Huron and Superior is obtained by means of the Canadian Sault Ste. Marie canal, and also by the St. Mary's Falls canals, situated on the United States side of the river St. Mary. Improvements of the United States channels in river St. Mary through Hay lake, east of Sault Ste.
Page 289 - Commission shall give due consideration, among other things, to the efficiency with which the carriers concerned are operated, the amount of revenue required to pay their respective operating expenses, taxes, and a fair return on their railway property held for and used in the service of transportation...
Page 216 - RIVER ST. LAWRENCE AND LAKES. The River St. Lawrence with the system of canals established on its course above Montreal, and the Lakes Ontario, Erie, St. Clair, Huron and Superior, with connecting canals, afford a course of water communication extending from the Straits of Belle Isle to Port Arthur, at the head of Lake Superior, a distance of 2,217 statute miles.
Page 349 - Commission may from time to time designate) will, under honest, efficient and economical management and reasonable expenditures for maintenance of way, structures and equipment, earn an aggregate annual net railway operating income equal, as nearly as may be, to a fair return upon the aggregate value of the railway property of such carriers held for and used in the service of transportation...
Page 200 - ... purposes are placed at any such mine in excess of the pro rata allotment and distribution of cars for coal loading currently made to any other of such mines which do not receive private cars or cars for railway fuel and which are on the same division or district established by such respondent for the distribution of cars, is and for the future will be, unjust and unreasonable, and unduly and unreasonably preferential...
Page 74 - It is ordered, That the above-named defendants, according as they participate in the transportation, be, and they are hereby, notified and required to cease and desist, on or before...
Page 398 - Who has given value in good faith relying upon the description therein of the goods, for damages caused by the non-receipt by the carrier or a connecting carrier of all or part of the goods or their failure to correspond with the description thereof in the bill at the time of its issue.